What Retailers Like Amazon, H&M, Apple Do With Unsold Inventory?

"Returns in the U.S. create more than 5 billion pounds of waste in landfills each year, and more than 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. The problem is only growing as Amazon leads the way in bringing more shoppers online, where the rate of returns is 25%, compared to just 9% for in-store purchases" (CNBC, 2019)

And...Feed it forward! Turning a problem into a solution

Canadian entrepreneurs are getting creative in trying to solve the world's food waste problem. 

• BM UNIT 1: Ethical Objectives, Stakeholders

• BM UNIT 3: Profit & Loss Account

• BM UNIT 4:  Branding | Price | Distributions

• BM UNIT 5: Production Planning | Stock Control

• CUEGIS: Change, Ethics, Innovation, Strategy 

• ESS UNIT 8.2 Resource use in society 

• ESS UNIT 8.3 Solid waste management 

• ESS UNIT 7.1 Energy security 

• ESS UNIT 7.2 Climate change mitigation & adaptions 

And... Connections to Circular Economy

From Cup-to-Cup: Cradle to Cradle

Bringing Foxconn to the US

Foxconn, the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics building a massive factory in a village in rural Wisconsin. See economic consideration and impacts of re-shoring  back to the homeland

• BM UNIT 1: Sector Changes, Ethical Objectives | CSR, Stakeholders 

• BM Unit 2: Re-shoring

• BM UNIT 3: Profit & Loss Account

• BM UNIT 5: The role of operations, Location

• CUEGIS: Change, Culture, Ethics, Globalization, Strategy 

The Future of Work

Why economists and futurists disagree about the future of the labor market. 

• BM UNIT 1: Ethical Objectives | CSR, Stakeholders, External Environment, Growth & Evolution

• BM UNIT 2: Function of HR

• BM UNIT 4: Marketing Planning

• BM UNIT 5: Methods of Production, Location

• CUEGIS: Change, Culture, Ethics, Globalization, Strategy 

What's behind the Korean wave?

BTS and Blackpink may be some of South Korea’s most famous cultural exports, but the burgeoning Hallyu industry includes K-beauty brands and even exports, contributing to $12.3 billion worth of exports in 2019. 

• BM UNIT 1: Sectoral Change, External Environment, Growth

• BM UNIT 4: Marketing Strategy, International Marketing

• CUEGIS: Change, Culture, Innovation, Strategy

Google, Facebook, Amazon - monopoly?

Watch this video to find out how US antitrust law evolved and what it means for America's biggest businesses. 

• BM UNIT 1: External Environment, Growth, Ethical objectives

• CUEGIS: Change, Innovation, Strategy

The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK 

Minute 4:42 specifically talks about the effect that leaving Brexit had on local businesses. 

• BM UNIT 1: External Environment, Growth, Stakeholders

• BM UNIT 2: Recruitment and HR planning

• BM UNIT 3: Costs & Revenue

• BM UNIT 4: International Marketing [HL]

• BM UNIT 5: Supply Chain Management, Relocation

• CUEGIS: Change, Innovation, Strategy

The Rise Of Google Maps

A look at how Google came to dominate maps.

• BM UNIT 1: Ethical Objectives, Stakeholders, External Environment, Growth & Evolution (M&A)

• BM UNIT 4: Marketing Planning

• CUEGIS: Change, Ethics, Globalization, Innovation, Strategy